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German translation services provider offering high quality professional German translation at excellent rates.

If your understanding of Chinese is limited to takeout menus, you need a friend fluent in Mandarin. With a telephone interpreter and translation service, English-speaking visitors to China can get directions, make reservations and basically avoid embarrassment. We tested two interpreter services in the market: chinaONEcall, a British company started in 2006 that promotes itself as "the interpreter in your pocket," and Language Line Services, which was started by a former California police officer 25 years ago.

Danwei reports on China's first online meme of 2008 - "Very yellow, very violent,". The article offers up a translation of Mai Tian's post entitled: "The Mop culture behind 'Very yellow, very violent'" - an interesting article about China's rather "mob-like" BBS culture.

Roland from the EastSouthWestNorth blog has done a very good translation of an essay by a Chinese post-graduate student who reflects on the choices he and other Chinese students make in their lives.

Practice your Chinese reading with the Chinese version of Harry Potter. Here's an extract from the first book, with English translation and pinyin tooltips.

Asia Stuff Network adds Google Custom Search, Event Feeds and Social Mapping to connect expats in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen.

A new chapter in the ongoing controversy surrounding China's women's gymnastics team opened today, as stryde.hax found surviving copies of official registration documents issued by China's General Administration of Sport of China.

Translation of an interesting analysis about the recent stampede in a Chongqing Carrefour.

From ESWN:
"The following is a translation of a blog post by Southern Weekend reporter Fu Jianfeng (???). This is about the FoxConn-versus-China Business News case that Fu and his colleagues were working on, but never go to publish it after a ban was issued on further coverage. So this is yet another case in which an unpublishable case found itself on the Internet instead, with all sorts of delicious details that could not have been published either. This is a perfect illustration of how the Internet has transformed China ..."